What Will's been up to...

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Between being fed-up with Will's sleeping, and feeding him drugs for reflux, his aversion to runny food and the Flop and Push I decided it was time to try something new with Will. So we went to see Lynnette Orrell at Hobsonville Chiropractic Centre. First up she has a dog, a little Bichon so Will was automatically impressed! And then there's the fact that she's just plain lovely and seems to be really good and knowledgeable. She worked her magic on various parts of Will and he seems to be all the better for it. In particular he is getting up on his knees a lot better than he was, I just need to work on his arms (how do you get a baby to do push-ups and wheelbarrow races??).

She also said that most reflux babies scream when she does the reflux points... Will on the other hand is a grinner... he smiled his way through all three appointments. So that has lead me to give him a wee trial of not taking the Losec, and so far it's going well, he seems to be pretty much his usual chirpy self.
One of the coolest things about the Chiro was it only cost $25 a pop because she said she knows that when a family has a new baby there usually isn't much spare cash floating around... that is a very cool philosophy. I wish I could afford to go!!!


Sleep-wise we are generally still doing 3-4 wake-ups each night but I figure until I feel comfortable with him not having a night feed (around 12 months) I am just going to have to put up with it and just try and go to bed earlier.


Will still doesn't like runny food, and he doesn't like being spoon fed so is currently existing on rusks and bananas and the odd apple in his mesh thingee... he takes big bites (especially for someone with no teeth) so it's lucky he has a great gag reflex because he certainly needs it. I need to phase in some more solid stuff so he can have some more variety.


And boy can the boy talk... he's getting really loud with lots of growling and !screaming! especially when he wants something or someone or to get somewhere. He has a few words which may or may not be the real thing... he has a Pouw (for Puss) and wooo (for woof) Baba (for brother) and a dees (for birdies) but with the exception of Pouw he's not consistently using any of them so who knows???

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